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Month: November 2007

Summary

Welcome to another edition of Compiz Fusion Community News. In this edition, I will be covering numerous bug fixes that have been made to Compiz and Fusion as well as covering some new features that just came in and some interesting user plugins found on our forum. Among those being atlantis2, fireflies, smackpad, Autumn, cubedbus and filedebug.

By the way, the posts of this blog that contain images, when read on planet seem to have the title be the image name and not the title of the blog post. The title for this blog post is “Compiz Fusion Community News for November 20th: Features, Features, Features”

I’ve also started to add the ‘more’ tag to posts that are long, so that I don’t waste so much space on planet and the front page of this blog. If they are so annoying that you want me to remove them, just let me know and I will.

So I’ve been working on Fusion-Installer a little more and it is getting better. I’ve implemented a nice treeview for you to pick components and you can now resize the window (Yes, I’ve kicked my gtkFixed habits :D)

Sorry about the interpolation.

FusionInstaller isn’t quite ready yet – will be soon🙂

As you may have noticed, I’ve set up a git repo at

git://git.compiz-fusion.org/users/smspillaz/0.6-ports

containing ports to Compiz-0.6 of all the new, popular and exciting unofficial development happening recently. I’ve just fixed the anaglyph plugin after some time spent investigating issues with BCOP (Rearranging option names – ex anaglyphOffsetDesktop -> anaglyphDesktopOffset )😐. I need some testers for that btw😉

Photo plugin and atlantis-2 should be fixed fairly shortly, I just need to figure out what is going on there…

I’ve also (re)written Compiz-Decorator-Settings to be a bit… better

Finally, I found out this way to take uber-sleek screenshot + not-so-great descriptions via Compiz

Summary

Welcome to another edition of Compiz Fusion Community News. During the period between the last entry and this one, we have seen a lot of things, such as a couple of new community plugins and some fixes for some long-standing bugs. We also saw the first ”stable” Compiz Fusion release (0.6) based on the 0.6 branch and Compiz 0.6.2.

News in Bugs:

Some panels and docks are no longer hidden in ‘Showdesktop’ mode

Dragging and dropping icons in scale finally works now

If you toggle the switcher, then cancel it by pressing (Esc), it won’t switch you to the next window

If a window was denied focus for whatever reason, it will now set the ‘Demands Attention’ hint (Flashing in the taskbar)

CCSM will now warn you if you try to use a feature (I.e, largedesktop) when no plugins actually provide the feature

When using ‘fit window to zoom level’, the window will not go smaller than allowed by the program

Some GNOME action integration fixes

AIGLX users can now use water, blur and reflex properly due to a nice little workaround in the workarounds plugin.

Freewins is no longer slow

News in Features:

Some great new plugins are out too. Lets have a look:

Freewins Plugin:

Otherwise known as AWESOME, this plugin allows you to freely rotate any window in any direction that you want. Of course, there is no input redirection yet, but there have been things added so that you can try it out and then reset your windows so that you can use them again.

There are of course bugs, specifcally it doesn’t play nice with cube, wall or expo, but otherwise works🙂

Git master users can get it from

git clone git://git.compiz-fusion.org/users/warlock/freewins

If you are using ubuntu or a distribution that does not support XCB, use the 0.6 version fromhere

(openSUSE is the only major distribution that supports XCB)

Anaglyph Plugin

Talked about on digg as the real 3D desktop, this plugin will turn your desktop into not just a 2D image on a screen, but a real life 3D image (With the help of some 3D glasses). As you can see in the screenshot below the image is split up near the edges into a color, red transparent bit and cyan transparent bit, much like in the movies. You’ll need a standard pair of 3D glasses (Go to a 3D Movie ;-)) to make it work properly (Red-Blue/Green)

You can anaglyph just one window as shown above

Or you can anaglyph the entire desktop as shown above.

The great thing about this plugin is that the anaglyph’s change as window stacking changes. This means that windows will be viewable in 3D and that you can see clearly the window stacking. (Of course, you can’t see behind a window as it’s not physically possible :D)

Finally, you can configure which windows can be anaglyphed, how far out the initial image is on your screen and how far out the windows should stick.

Anaglyph was made by the user wodor

The unfortunate thing is that I don’t have a pair of 3D glasses so I can’t try it out😦

You can download anaglyph from

git clone git://git.compiz-fusion.org/users/wodor/anaglyph

0.6 users can get a version soon. Watch this space.

Photo wheel

User b0le has hacked together from snow and gears a plugin which will display a wheel of photos in the center of your cube.

You can customize the images that display on the turn-wheel and a new option as recently added to have the turn-wheel spin around a separate axis away from the center of the cube

Application Updates:

I’ve also added a keybindings selection to CFCapplet and it can now dynamically resize. Screenshot below

This actions tab was first seen in crdlb’s medium-settings

Tip of the Week

Did you know that you can blur out unfocused windows? Just navigate to CCSM->Plugins->Blur->Focus Blur and check it and make sure that there is something in ‘Focus Blur Windows’

Conclusion

Well thats it for news over the past two weeks. I hope everyone is enjoying Compiz Fusion and I congratulate the developers of all these great new plugins! Also, congrats to the dev team for our 0.6 release last fortnight. It rocks!